Complete Your Core Training With Oblique Exercises
Exercises for the obliques are a great addition to your abdominal training and will help to complete your strong, lean and functional core. See videos below.
Your abdominals and obliques are involved, to some degree, in nearly all other exercises and movements (for stabilization), so oblique workouts should definitely be a part of your overall training plans.
It is a fairly big misconception that performing hundreds of sets of oblique and abdominal exercises will somehow reduce the layer of body fat that typically covers them (i.e. love handles).
To achieve visible definition in your abs and obliques, you must carry a low body fat percentage (about 10% or lower for men and about 14% or lower for women). Engaging in excessive oblique workouts does very little to reduce body fat. That being said, oblique movements are vital to comprehensive core training.
Trainer’s Tip: An abdominal/oblique workout of 15-20 minutes performed after your fitness training program, is sufficient to maintain a strong and athletic midsection.
Exercises For Obliques
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Hanging Windshield Wiper
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Medicine Ball Side To Side
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Stability Ball Twist
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Dumbbell Side Crunch
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“Is It A Good Idea?”
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Side Plank Twist
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Floor Windshield Wiper
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Bicycle Crunch
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Side Lying Crunch
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Cross Crunch
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